Electric battery.



H. HALSEY. ELECTRIC BATTERY..-` APPLIGATION FILED MAY e. 1903.

Patented Jan.9,1l912.

7 /f f6; /6 as vTo all whom it may concern:

,UNiTED sTATEs PATENT oEFioE. f

HENB'Y H ALSEY, 0F NEW YQBX, N. Y., ASSIGNO T0 HALSEY COMPANY, A. CORPBATION `01" NEW JERSEY.

' ELEcTEIc BATTERY.

Be it known that I, HENRYV HALSEY, a .cit-.i-

zen of the United States, residing at New" York, in the county of New York and State and exact specification.l

of New York, have invented certain .new

and useful Improvements in, Electric Batteries, of which the following is a full, clear,

'Thisinvention relates to electric batteries and has for its object to obviate the necessity of hav-ing a separate receptacle and electrolyte 'for each cell'. i

In storage batteries, for instance, itzis essential thatthe :electrolyte "be 'kept lat approximately constant strength be at all times submerged. There a 'large number of cells are'used each cell must be by suitable in through a considerable saving in frequently inspected and its-electrolyte tested.' It also frequently happens `thatthe plates break their jarsonfaccount of expan-y sion and warping,

and interrupt the circuit by allowing the-electrolyte to ,escape.

.By my invention I propose yto do' away with these disadvantages by providing .a common 'electrolyte in partitions late. the same strength and at the in all ofy the cells .and broken, the circuit Would not be aii'ected.-

same yheight- In the case of primary batteries there are a,

equal advantages secured by the -use of common electrolyte for all 'of the cells. The common electrolyte can be agitated to depolarize the electrodes and thus the neces-1v sity for separate depolarizingdevices for each cell is done away With. There isconsequently less power consumed in depolarizing the electrodes. If the *electrodes are movable( a circulation Will be created which Where a chemical depolarizer is used, ityvill be evenly distributed to all ofthe cells. A primary or secondary battery: embodying my invention comprises a plurality of cells separated from each other by partitions which have openings therein to permit free circulation-.ot` the electrolyte. There will be Weight because it will be, unnecessary to provide a separate receptacle for each ceptacle with openings foreach alternate cell being sulicient.

Vand that the plates y which yall ofthe cells areimmersed, and divided llfi'om eachother. having-openingstherewhich the electrolyte can circu-y The electrolyte Will thus -be `kept atA if one jar'should becell, a partition or iellongitudinal section ofa primary.batter-yembody-ing my invention, Fig. 2 is -a longitu- Referring to the drawings, 'Figui-'e 1 is ELECTRIC GENERATOR miem-waan. 9,1912. Application filed May 6,. 1903. Serial No. 155,858.

diiialr view. of a secondary-battery, Fig. 3 lis 'a plan view of the batterlyshoivn in =F ig. 2. Fig. 4 1s a side view of one cell. Fig. 5, .is

a: plan view of one cell in 'F ig. 1 showing lthe connections.

v l isa-tank or llarge receptacle in'iv-hich the cells 2 `are contained. Each cell has acaSing or partition 2?, supported on ledges .8," and. open 4to permit circulatioiiofthe electrolyte -which isconta-inedin the 'ta-nk 1. .Covers 5 support trolyte. The cover 5 ,is madeof hard rub- 'ber or other non-conducting material. The :electrodes :6 are lrotatable and ,arlewixed on a shaft 9 which .has bearingsin the' hangers 10 attachedto. the undersides of the covers by y,bolts 11. The .electrode 6 is `:composed*of one or more diskscarriedona hub. @neef the -disks'carries a gear whichfmeshes with av spur gear' I13 of non-corrosive material -niounted `en t'he `cover 5. The gear 13 :is mountedon as'ha'ft 14'wliich is driven.froni any suitable motor through' pulley r15. The shaft l-.tisvcontiynuous :and .drives :all of the e1ectrodes6.` l

Attachedv tothe coverl 5 `,by b'oltsvl is a frame 1:7 which supportsthe :fixed electrodes 7 infg'i'ooves 1'8.. Thereare similar-grooves 19 in v'the coverii'i which.. the upper-,ends of Athe electrodes 7 rest. .These electrodes are substantially rectangular in shape andare-.cut out from the .top toward the center to `permit Vthe shaft `9 and hub .of theiiiovable electrodes -6 vto be inserted. The rods *or bolt-s 1 6` are incased in insulating ytubes which form shoulders and enable the frame 17.'to be rigidly supported. The electrodesA 7 maybe lconnected with4 a binding post- 23 carried on the cover. The bolts 11 are 'connected by a plate 24 which carries a binding po'st 25.'

27 is a pipe through which a blast of air maybe supplied to -agitate the electrolyte. Or, paddles operated from 'a suitable motor may be used instead. -A chenii-' i cal depolarizer may becontained in a receptacle 28 supported by a; band 37, hav- 'ing an orifice '29 permitting the depolarizer to `be distributed to the electrolyte and to the cells. 9

Referring to Figs. 2,' 3 and '4: 30, 38, 4represent storage cells each comprising the positiveand negatlve plates 31and 32connected in series by bars 33. The alternate cells -38 have casin'gs Orpartitions 34 sup` ported onledges` 8. The'open partitions permit free circulation of the electrolyte. The cells30, it Will be observed, have noy partitions of their own but arevimmersed directly in the large tank 1. The plates rest on the ledges 8.- This arrangement-is also applied to the primary battery shown in Fig. 1.I v

The storagev battery may be provided with mechanical depolarizing means if it is de` sired, but I have ynot considered it necessary to show such a construction.

I do not Wish to be limited kto theeXact construction shown7 as the invention may be applied in va numberl of different Ways Withoutdeparting from theV scope of the inventio. Y.. Iv

Having thus described my invention, I

declare that what .I claim as newE and desire to 'secure by Letters Patent is l. In a battery, the combination of areceptacle, a plurality lof sets of electrodes,

each set forming a couple, an electrolyte common to Aall of said electrodes, partitions in said receptacle i'orming casings and open at the lbottom to permit flow of the electrolyte and interposed between said sets of htively connected to electrodes', se'parate frames l suspending the respective sets of electrodes, each frame being attached to its cover, and insulatedv l separately suspending each v'setof electrodes,

each frame being attached Lito its cover, a driven device carried by each cover for moving the movable electrode of its corresponding set, a common means for driving said j driven devices, and insulated terminals carried by each cover and respectively connected to the electrodes of the different polarities of its corresponding set.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of tWo Witnesses. n

' HENRY HALSEY. Witnesses:

JULIAN S. lVoos'rER, GEORGE N. KERR.

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